Washing-machine



AUNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOE.

SAM. T. ADAMS AND DAVID ADAMS, F MEDINA, OHIO.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,655, dated August 21, 1860.

To all rwhom it may concern.'

Be it known that we, SAMUEL T. ADAMS and DAVID ADAMS, of the town and county of Medina and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Machine for lashing Clothes; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, the same making a part of this specification.

In the said drawings, Figure l, is a vertical cross section, longitudinally through the center of the machine. Fig. 2 is a view of the rubbing portion of the machine.

The same letters of reference denote like parts in both figures.

The nature of our invention consists in the hereinafter described arrangement of devices.

To enable others skilled in the construction of machines for washing clothes, we will proceed to describe the same, with reference to the drawings.

A, is the box with elevated ends, to prevent the water from being thrown out by the action of the machine.

B, B, are legs which support the machine.

C, is an upright, (there being one on each side of the box) secured on the outside of thebox A, as shown in Fig. l.

D is a concave wash bottom formed of cross pieces cl, d. Said wash bottom is supported by the springs D, D.

E, is a rubber, the rubbing portion of which is composed of the spiral fluted rollers e, e.

E, E, are rounds which are made fast to the sides of the rubber to keep them together, and also to furnish handles for operating the rubber.

F, F, are suspension arms, the lower ends of which are secured to the rubber by means of a screw or bolt. The upper ends of said suspension arms pass through the shaft Gr, and are there secured in suitable position by any of the well known means. One end of the shaft G is provided with a tenent g, upon which is secured the crank H, which operates the machine with great ease and rapidity. The shaft G, is kept in place by means of the slide-boxes I, I. The said slideboxes are so constructed that they may rise (whenever required) in the slotted portion of the upright C, as shown at O, Fig. 1. Between the slide boxes I, I, and the set pieces J, J, are placed the spiral springs L, L. Thel set-pieces J, J, are secured to the upright by means of the pin K as shown in Fig. l.

In this arrangement it will be seen that when the articles to be washed are placed in the space, shown at P, Fig. 1,-being then between a yielding rubber, and a yielding bottomevery portion of them will be operated upon, and receive a thorough rubbing, and at the same time, also, receive a thorough rinsing by the constant agitation of the water, which is produced by the revolutions of the spiral fiuted rollers e, c. After the clothes are sufciently rubbed,- the rubber, may be swung up out of the way, and secured by means of the spring M, Fig. 1,--in the upper end of which, is a hole large enough to receive the end of one of the suspension arms F, as shown at N, Fig. l.

Having thus described the construction and operation of our improved machine for washing clothes, what we claim as new and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement of the iiuted spiral rollers @L -yielding concave bottom D,-springs D', M, and L,box A,uprights C, rubber suspension arms F, F,shaft G, crank H,- slide boxes I, I, the whole beingconstructed and arranged for operation conjointly as, and for the purpose set forth.

SAMUEL T. ADAMS. DAVID ADAMS.

lVitnesses:

S. O. PRICHARD, GORGES W. To'rHURs'r. 

